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Just a silly outer god causing some chaos

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To continue my benighted series of old man yelling at clouds about cosmic horror, one thing I feel people sometimes miss is that lovecraft was actually at the cutting edge of the edge of science for his time. Pluto is discovered? In the same year the whisperer in darkness reveals its all a plot by those dastardly mi go, manipulating puny scientists. Eldritch impossible alien city discovered? Where else but the very frontier of exploration at the time, Antarctica? All of his horrors had such a pull because he wasn't just nattering about the horrors of science and knowledge and so forth but actually showing them in a very tangible way.

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Modern adaptation where the narrator is on a Megabus and just crushing a bag of Takis, wiping the dust on his Pepe shirt

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I’m looking at you specifically, Robert Blake and Sam Strutt

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Gahan Wilson (1930-2019) Some cartoons from the above artist from ''Playboy'' culled from various issues published between 1975 to 1983. Wilson, for me, was a precursor to cartoonists like Gary Larson of 'The Far Side' fame (which I loved). His work often lived in the kind of weird territory Larson explored although Wilson was attentive to different details given his darker sense of humor. It makes sense that Wilson credited cartoonists like Charles Addams (the creator of 'The Addams Family') and writers like H. P. Lovecraft as influences. I'm pretty sure there are collections of his ''Playboy'' cartoons out there and a few children's books Wilson wrote. The world benefits from the existence of weird people doing their weird things. If you're weird and you're reading this, keep on being idiosyncratic.

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A riddle

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I get that the eldritch creature forms are cool and all, but my favourite form of Nyarlathotep is always going to be the human pharaoh form that he uses in most of the original Lovecraft stories. Because he looks like a tumblr sexyman.

Tall

Slender

Wears ridiculous themed outfits (Ancient Egyptian pschent and prismatic gay robes)

Kind of a trickster and has a sarcastic personality

Is evil

Conclusion: He is tumblr sexy man.

Lovecraft did say that he was “swarthy,” which might put him out of the running because most tumblr sexymen are the colour of milk. However I still have faith in Nyarlathotep. If this website existed in Lovecraft’s time, middle schoolers everywhere would be all over the Crawling Chaos. And Lovecraft would be confused by it.

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Some kingly concepts!

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Yhoundeh

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Cthulhu, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep

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One Fine Day Before the Formless Slaves Figured Out They Didn't Have to Listen to the Masters' Bullshit Anymore.

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I tried to draw the version of Dagon that appears in Stuart Gordon's 2001 film.

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I really dislike when people mispronounce it as "nyar-latho-tep" because, like, he's Egyptian, Nyarlathotep is Egyptian, it's NYAR-LAT-HOTEP.

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Cthulhu Mythos Tarot

Number 15: Nyarlathotep, the Devil

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2. Made Of The Void